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On 9/20/2023 at 9:57 AM, drotto said:

es, I do personally feel that extra people in the room when they are not wanted for whatever reason, could lead to an unhealthy environment. This could then have negative effects on the product. 

Agreed.

On 9/20/2023 at 9:30 AM, TupennyConan said:

craft services

Hey, don't ever blame craft services.   They provide unlimited drinks and candy.  The steak and shrimp were pretty good as well. 

On 9/19/2023 at 11:01 AM, Bosco685 said:

No money for those silly creative types

 

0.88% of annual revenue is no small amount for a company like Disney.  I would have guessed 0.05,

Whats even scarier would be if ten years from now we look back at the good ole days of 2023 prices. 

On 9/13/2023 at 8:52 PM, CGC Mike said:

This is not the reason the thread was moved.  If that was the case, I would move the AI thread out of comics general.  The movie forum is getting too many non comic related topics posted.  I will remove some of them over time. (as I have time).  

I can understand that, but it seems a shame. Its a nice place for all sorts of movies and related topics

On 9/13/2023 at 8:40 PM, sledgehammer said:

Is Jessie Ventura in it?

If he is, then I could potentially see Roy taking the conversation to thermites and the intentional conspiratorial take down of the twin towers.

You know, to broaden everyone's mind.

Again, Water Cooler kind of stuff.

Old school, back in the day, Water Cooler kind of stuff.

Oh… I see now. The thread was actually moved so Roy couldn’t post in it.  That’s actually a slick move but not entirely honest since the sub-forum has many non-comic related movies in there. Just say this thread has moved beyond the scope of the movie or something.

On 9/13/2023 at 8:18 PM, MattTheDuck said:

It's the same with Costco branded (Kirkland) products and most of the "house" brands you see at Kroger, Safeway, et al.

Yep, Costco brand is actually some good stuff in disguise.

On 9/13/2023 at 12:16 PM, CGC Mike said:

I am moving this to the water cooler, as the sub forum in Comics General is for Comics related - Movies, TV, Video games only.  

Are you moving the following movies in there as well or is this a new thing?

Expendables 4

Oppenheimer and the Atom Bomb

Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey part 2 (Not exactly the Pooh we know)

Equalizer 3

Meg 2

Mission Impossible 7 

Lawman 

Winning Time: Magic Johnson

On 9/13/2023 at 4:06 PM, fantastic_four said:

I certainly wouldn't sign my digital likeness away if I were Sean Penn.  Or even an unknown actor.

But I'm not at all clear on why SAG needs to ban even the possibility of a studio including it from all contracts.

Do you know when most contracts are signed by non-principle talent and how often there are not actual contracts at all?

On 9/12/2023 at 3:07 PM, ThreeSeas said:

Talking about AI and its effects on society, this reminds me of an episode of a television anthology series similar to the Twilight Zone, but which I cannot remember the name of.

Set in the future, a young woman was chatting online with another person and she discovered that he was a real person and not an AI generated whatever. She got out of her house to go meet him and if I remember correctly, the show inferred that they were the last two humans. The neighborhood where she lived was well kept with lawns mowed etc. but it was all done by robots. So here was human civilization with no humans, or nearly none. This was quite a long time ago that I watched this episode, but it always stuck with me a possible future, and now even more so with talks of population declines. I guess if there's no people to do the jobs, then we will have to have our AI driven machines do them. 

I would love to see that if anyone knows what it is.

I really enjoyed the Alex and Ada comic series in 2013. This makes me want to go read it again

On 9/10/2023 at 1:50 AM, VintageComics said:

Disney cares about everything and everybody. Trust them. 

And keep giving them your money, Iger REALLY appreciates it. 

I cancelled Disney + a month or two ago and it looks like so have a lot of others. They are trying to up their subscriber numbers by offering 3 months at a $1.99 each. 

On 9/9/2023 at 8:59 PM, Point Five said:

When the PPP movie comes out you're going to clean up! I wonder if they've considered Danny Trejo. 

 

Wow that is an excellent choice. Especially if they would have made it 10+ years ago.

On 9/9/2023 at 4:11 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

Star Trek themed protest…she dresses up as Princess Leia.  

On 9/8/2023 at 1:29 PM, MatterEaterLad said:

Agree with @Dr. Balls.

I make my living as a novelist (Jamie Ford, if you're curious).

AI's have harvested my work and the work of other writers and now use it for mimicry, without creator consent or the respect of copyrights.

It's one thing to do this to dead artists if their work is in the public domain, but to harvest the work of living artists and writers, is terrible. In the earliest versions of these AI generators the algorithms would often leave in the signature of the artist it was copying. They've all fixed this now, but artists still recognize their work being used without their permission. 

I do realize that this is a genie that's never going back in the bottle. And as long as I keep evolving my style and what I write about, I'll always be ahead of the aggregators. But for screenwriters, it's a whole other thing. It's easy to see an AI harvesting the scripts of 15 years of Law & Order and then spitting out similar scripts incorporating current events.

Who knows, when general AI arrives, we may end up with sentient AI boardies, arguing that Kirby's earlier work was way better than his later work. Ah, good times! 

Wait...are we sure Kav isn't an AI??? 

 

I have wondered how this would work copyright wise. Say I am writing a book and I asked AI to describe a scene for me. How would I know if they stole it from another novel and if so, what happens then?

On 9/8/2023 at 12:24 PM, Dr. Balls said:

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to work in my example.

I don’t see how it would be possible not to do so. It was just too interesting.

On 9/8/2023 at 12:06 PM, Dr. Balls said:

Frodo Baggins Riding A Dinosaur in the art style of John William Waterhouse.

I felt compelled to copy and paste that in the AI generator. This is what it gave me,

By the way, for decoration purposes, I don't think you need them graded. These are cool covers but inexpensive. You can actually get document frames, place a piece of black card stock as the background and the comic in front.  You can either hang them or put them on a shelf.

Plenty of good covers out there but I am trying to remember the ones that are more age appropriate.